NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+6059%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
